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#Total #Immunity Chief Justice John Roberts described the #ruleoflaw as #endangered and warned against “trashing the #justices." “The notion that rule of law governs is the basic proposition,” Roberts said during appearance at Georgetown Law. “Certainly as a matter of theory, but also as a matter of practice, we need to stop and reflect every now and then how rare that is, certainly rare throughout history, and rare in the world today.” #OpusDei has regrets, nah. #trump politico.com/news/2025/05/12/c

“Die Hälfte all dieser Emissionen entfällt sogar nur auf 36 Unternehmen, zu denen größtenteils staatliche Unternehmen wie China Energy Investment, die National Iranian Oil Company, #Gazprom aus Russland und #Adnoc aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten gehören. Der größte CO₂-Verursacher unter ihnen ist der saudi-arabische Staatskonzern #Aramco. Zehn der 36 befinden sich in China. Die fünf größten CO₂-Verursacher, die im Besitz von Investoren sind, sind #Exxon Mobil, #Chevron, #Shell, #Total Energies und #BP. Sie sind insgesamt für etwa fünf Prozent der weltweiten fossilen CO₂-Emissionen verantwortlich.” #AchseDesBoesen #justStopOil #keepItInTheGround #DrillBabyDrill 🫤

sueddeutsche.de/wissen/klimakr

Süddeutsche Zeitung · Klimakrise: 36 Energiekonzerne verursachen Hälfte der weltweiten CO₂-EmissionenBy Nadja Lissok

Trump’s expectation of #total #loyalty has crept from the White House and seeped into another branch of government.

That common denominator carried more weight than practically any other quality as the forty-seventh president selected dozens of nominees to lead different agencies
-- nearly all of whom had previously lent a hand to Trump in his criminal trials, donated money to his political campaign, or helped build out one of his presidential transition playbooks, such as Project 2025.

They have, in turn, consistently yielded to the president’s demands and expectations throughout their confirmation hearings over the last two weeks.

When asked if he would obey the Impoundment Control Act, Trump’s nominee to run the Office of Management and Budget (and Project 2025 architect) #Russell #Vought claimed that the law was unconstitutional and that he would defer to the Trump administration as to whether his office would act in accordance with the law.

U.S. attorney general nominee (and former Trump attorney) #Pam #Bondi weaseled her way out of answering whether Trump lost the 2020 election.

Trump’s confirmed Treasury Secretary #Scott #Bessent wouldn’t commit to not cutting Medicaid.
(Project 2025, the fiscal year 2025 Republican Study Committee budget plan, and the fiscal year 2025 House budget all propose sweeping cuts to the wildly popular program that provides comprehensive health insurance to some 72 million Americans.)

In October, transition team co-chair #Howard #Lutnick promised that a government equipped with total allegiance to the chief Republican was on its way.

While explaining how Trump’s last administration buckled under the weight of staff turnover due to disagreements in “vision,”
Lutnick said that the new agenda was to
❌eradicate any internal hostility to the Republican’s plans.

“They’re all going to be on the same side, and they’re all going to understand the policies, and we’re going to give people the role based on their capacity
💥and their fidelity and loyalty to the policy, as well as to the man,” the Wall Street billionaire said at the time.
newrepublic.com/post/190916/do

The New Republic · Senior Republican Warns House Trump Expects Total Loyalty—or ElseHouse Majority Whip Tom Emmer had a grim warning for his colleagues.

 
How does a #Lunar #Eclipse Work?

#Nasa: ❛❛ When the Moon passes through the #Earth's #shadow, it causes the #Moon to look very unusual for a short period of time. This event is called a #LunarEclipse ❜❜

@KronoMoon: Most Lunar Eclipses are not #Total. When one is, as on 2025 Mar 14, we call it a #KrononautMoon, and we invite #TimeTravelers to come visit.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=mbT50-rppa 2014 May 14
🔗 NASA.gov/Goddard
🔗 Wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclip

This report is stunning - not in a good way - Special Review Office of Inspector General US Dept of the Interior. Review of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Actions Related to January 6, 2021 - the complete lack of acknowledgement of what occurred to our city, our nation and our #democracy on #Jan6 No #lessonslearned #Procedures #Must #change #Total lack of barely adequate #action in face of #insurrection cost many lives, threatened country, destroyed #USCapitol doioig.gov/sites/default/files

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"#ReconAfrica’s projections of 120 billion barrels of oil [in the #Okavango Basin in #Namibia and #Botswana] could produce a “carbon gigabomb” of 51.6 gigatonnes of #emissions.

#BP’s big new gas plans in West Africa pose climate and biodiversity threats in #Senegal, and lucrative contracts with #ENI, #ExxonMobil, BP, #Shell and #Total threaten #Mozambique.

Our communities cannot risk a repeat of the devastation the fossil fuel industry brought to the Niger Delta.."

aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/

Al JazeeraAfrican Climate Summit: An opportunity to decolonise Africa’s energyBy Aneesa Khan

“the first big public rift between two industries that have spent a century working side by side”
#BP, #Exxon, #Total, and #Shell have walked back a substantial number of their previous #climate commitments”
“This ad illustrates the regressive shift from excessive #greenwash back to blatant #climatedenial
“Ad agencies are trying to play both sides of the #climate issue, and it just doesn’t work anymore” newrepublic.com/article/174392 #bigoil #fossilfuels #EV #electricvehicles #energytransition

The New RepublicIs Big Oil Turning on Big Auto?Exxon released an ad earlier this month that could signal a public rift between two industries that have spent a century working side by side.

700 climate campaigners demonstrated in Paris Friday in the latest attempt to disrupt a shareholder meeting held by a major fossil fuel company.

Oil giant TotalEnergies "record-breaking profits come at a steep cost: environmental devastation, human rights abuses, and climate chaos," said one advocacy group. "It's time to hold them accountable for their insatiable pursuit of wealth!"

commondreams.org/news/france-t #Total #Fossil-fuels #Climate